Hey y’all, it's Annelies and in this video I want to talk to you about my
favorite piece of lighting equipment and that is this 18 inch Neewer ring light,
so before we get started I'll go ahead and show you what comes with the light because I feel like
that's kind of important so first it's going to be these little gel frame clip thingies that you
can attach directly to the light and it actually comes with two sets so you either get this kind
of like foggy white gel or these amber gels which is really nice because it gives you the
ability to choose between a warmer light or a cooler light this light is a 5500 Kelvin light,
so it's going to mimic daylight, it is on the daylight scale but if for some reason you needed
a warmer light you have that option and they just kind of overlap each other and they snap right in
easy. So this light actually came with two accessories. One is a little cheap plastic
remote that I don't even know where it is anymore and secondly is this kind of soft shoe tripod
adapter which I never use on this, I use it for other things, so if you look right here you can
see that there's a soft shoe mount and what that's meant for is to slide this little doohickey on-
- Is this not the right thing? see, okay, I knew something was up I really thought this is the one
it came with I never use it but it's meant to be to where you can attach your smartphone here
and you don't even need an additional tripod but I never use this for that I use it for other things
but that's at least an option you have and then the last accessory this light comes with which
was a deal breaker for me I needed to make sure it had this is a travel carrying case now this
is like 20 inches by 20 inches it's not very wide it also has a nice carrying strap which is great
for travel and two handles in the middle with a zipper and everything that comes with the light
so the light and the cable all fit in here the only thing that doesn't fit is the tripod that it
comes with that you have to carry separately and I would just like to note that if you fly southwest
in the united states this does fit in the overhead compartment I remember I think it was like if you
read the measurements a certain way technically it works and if you act confident nobody will
question you and I traveled with this ring light from California to Florida and back because I
wanted to have some sort of lighting equipment when I lived in Florida, this is the smallest most
compact thing that I own it's also my favorite thing that I own so I had to take it and um
thanks to this bag it fit now I wouldn't really consider this an accessory but it does
come with the tripod I am 5”10 and this is not even extended all the way this light can go
up pretty dang high that's got to be at least seven feet in the air it's almost touching
my ceiling I don't know why you would need a ring light this tall but you have that option
you would want to be careful because it's very unstable this way but at least if you need it tall
you can do that now something that I love about this light is you can kind of articulate it in
different directions so this first knob on the bottom is going to be for loosening it off of
the actual tripod so if you want to take this thing off and put it in the bag this is where
you would loosen it the second one is going to be for bending forward and back so if I just
loosen this just a little bit I can now bend it facing the sky I can bend it tilting forward or
all the way at a 90 degree angle you just want to be careful the more weight you're
putting forward because like I said this is kind of top heavy this is not the most expensive tripod
in the world you'd probably want to weigh it down on the bottom if you did need to have it
completely flat like this or like I'm doing I'm standing on it so looking from the back we've
got a few things going on on the left of the back this is the cable connection the bulk of the cable
separates from the actual ring light which is nice for when you're moving it around your room or your
studio or for when you're traveling you just push it in and twist it to lock and you're good
and then on the right side is the knob for turning up the brightness now when it comes to this light
the reason why I love it so much is because how freaking powerful it is this light can go
from zero to a hundred real fast I've used this light in the past to light my entire
bedroom I have about a 20 foot by 20 foot bedroom this thing can like my whole room
no problem this light has so much versatility not only for the fact that you can change out the gels
and have it be different temperatures but the fact that it can be so low and then go so bright
is very very handy I had to make sure to film this video during the daytime the window is right
behind my camera because this is a light I rely on so heavily now as you probably know with like
the “beauty gurus” typically people will put it right behind their camera or just out of sight in
front of it like this and that's how their light will be and just putting it straight on and that
totally works it gives you an even light but then an effect that you also get is you get the little
rings in your eyes and I'm not a fan of that and I've also heard that I guess some people buy ring
lights just for that feature of getting that ring in your eyes to each his own but for me personally
the way that I use my ring light is I put it just slightly off to the side so if this was actually
a filming setup this would be behind my camera of course because this is blocking the camera but I
put it slightly off to the side and I angle it at me this way and then I have additional lights that
I put on the other side to kind of fill this dark space I like doing it this way because it's such
a powerful light that I get so much light source from it but then I don't have as much of that ring
in my eyes and I feel like it just looks way more natural but once again what is so great about this
light is if I was ever in a situation where I didn't have all my other lights the ones that
are on right now I still have even lighting which is very important I can still be seen
so for the purposes of this video I'm going to turn off my ceiling light I'm going to close my
blinds and I'm going to turn my iso to 100, just so you can see from the very lowest brightness
on this to the very brightest brightness so I know you can't see me but right now my camera
is on 100 iso, on 60 frames per second and on my 4.5 aperture, I am on a 10 to 18 millimeter lens
on the 10 setting and every light in my room is off there's a teeny teeny glimpse of daylight
coming through my blinds but it's pretty dark in here I'm going to go ahead and turn on my light
to what I think would be about like 10% okay so I'm going to assume that this is about 10% with
my little diffusers on here I use the diffusers because it makes it easier on my eyes otherwise
i'd be staring into very bright light now I'm going to turn it up a little bit more I'm going to
assume that this is like 50% lit probably around 80% now and this is 100% lit now of course this
is not the ideal lighting setup I wouldn't put my light in front of my camera and maybe i'd rather
have lights behind me filling up my background and stuff like that but just to say that in
front of me at 100% you can see me perfectly on the lowest iso setting on my camera I feel like
that's pretty dang impressive now just for the sake of doing an experiment I'm going to move my
light about five feet away from me on the highest setting so just for example sake my light is now
five feet away from me behind the camera now you can see I'm not really well lit right now this
is kind of too far away but if I were to bring this up in kind of like a normal setup which
is putting the light directly behind my camera now you can see how much better this looks my light is
directly like two inches behind my camera and I'm still on all the settings I mentioned before
and once again this is not my favorite setup I don't really like this because everything is
still really dark so that's when we could like fiddle with our settings if I bump us up to
200 iso depending on what style of lighting you like this might be perfect for you you can now
see the things in my background I don't have too much of a shadow I'm not really overexposed
so if I was in a completely dark room and I needed to film a video and all I had was the spring light
I know I could make it happen and it would still be a really high quality video okay I gotta change
this because this is very it's dark and my eyes let me fix this so now that we're back to normal
I just want to give my final thoughts on this ring light the newer 18 inch ring light and I love it
I don't know if you could tell by this video but I think this light is pretty dang fantastic it is
very capable it is great if you're somebody who can only afford one piece of equipment I had
other lighting equipment and I just wanted to kind of add something to it and this was the perfect
addition but I also purchased it because I knew if I only needed or could have one light that this
would do the job and this light overpowers both of my two soft boxes here like I am just continually
pleased and so happy with this light I've had it for two years it has literally traveled across the
country twice, it has moved with me so many times it is a wonderful high quality piece of lighting
equipment that I definitely definitely DEFINITELY recommend so if you're somebody who's in the
market for a piece of lighting equipment or you're wondering like should I get the 18 inch newer ring
light do it 100%. I chose to go with this size over the 14 inch size because I felt like this
would make more sense for me and considering how big this is and it perfectly fits around
my camera I'm glad I did I have a canon 80D, I use the flip out screen and when I'm recording,
I also have the Rode Video Micro -mic plus I don't I literally can never remember the name of this
thing it's got too many words in it so I've got like kind of a big setup going on and that all
fits within this circle if I would have had the 14 inch it would have been way too small but I
absolutely love it and I think you'll love it too and if you want to get your hands on one I
actually have a link in the description where you can go purchase it for yourself this is a heads up
it is an affiliate link, so that just means that I get a tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny commission for
pretty much advertising a product that nobody asked me to amazon says hey we'll give you like
a fraction of a penny anytime somebody buys one as thanks so if you want to purchase one I would
really appreciate it if you use my link in the description otherwise you can go check that out
online and I hope you all enjoyed this video I tried giving as much information that I know I
was looking for when I was researching this light so hopefully this video gave you some perspective
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comments down below whether it be about this light any equipment I have my other lighting
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and just some general nonsense in between, so that's going to be it for me, y’all thanks so much
for watching. Stay beautiful, have a marvelous day, and I'll see y'all in the next one. Bye!